I'm back bitches!
Not really. I just feel like writing again for a bit. Maybe the phase will pass, maybe it won't. So I'll get my customary stuff out of the way first -
-Happy Birthday to whoever had a birthday in my LJ absence.
-Merry Christmas
-Happy New Year
-The soundtrack at my funeral will be something utterly inappropriate.
-There IS a spoon.. and it's sole purpose is to allow me my cereal.
-I have no girlfriend still *insert standard moping and "Why me?" clichés* ...oh well, life goes on.
-Bruce Lee > Chuck Norris
That's done. Now onto something meaningful, because it came to my understanding a while back that my journal was quasi-popular because it was about as thought-provoking as a LIVEJOURNAL could be.
It's 2006. New year. Fresh start. All that jazz.
I'm going to be 20 years old. I've gone beyond the state of "teenager". I'm a young adult, a contributing, voting member of society...
And I have no idea where I belong or what I'm doing.
I'm not here to pout. This is simply a fact. Doors are closing all around me because while my passion in life is beyond me, all the ways to get to it are not. And they're all going away much faster than I'd hope to pretend they're not.
I know from speaking with people that I'm not the only one feeling this way. There are others... many other... who feel just as lost, using time that they don't have in the first place to squander trying to figure out what IT is that truly drives them. None of us wants to be unhappily employed for the rest of our lives, but it's a distinct and much more probable possibility.
Our educations seem to be going nowhere, teaching us things we don't care about so we can get jobs we hate that never use the information we have to memorize now. Information that only has to be memorized to get a single, flimsy piece of paper that says we can bite the bullet around stupid people long enough to get a "secondary education".
Hate it? You should. There is no such thing as making your way anymore. You have to EARN your way according to what someone else thinks of you and your work. It will cost you more money than you ever thought you'd spend, and you'll end up using maybe 30% of what you learned. Stock brokers call that kind of progress a "net LOSS".
Life has become too complex. You need approval from almost everything on one level to proceed to the very ass-bottom of the next. No one's allowed to find what they truly want out of life. They are bent and commanded to work for what someone else wants out of life.
There should be SOMETHING that evens it out, right?
Keyword : Should.
There isn't. The common person's vengeance will never be wrought, because the uncommon person says otherwise.
My advice - This is a livejournal. Don't take any advice from any livejournal. I'm gonna figure out my shit and get under way. My best to you and yours in doing the same.
-Happy Birthday to whoever had a birthday in my LJ absence.
-Merry Christmas
-Happy New Year
-The soundtrack at my funeral will be something utterly inappropriate.
-There IS a spoon.. and it's sole purpose is to allow me my cereal.
-I have no girlfriend still *insert standard moping and "Why me?" clichés* ...oh well, life goes on.
-Bruce Lee > Chuck Norris
That's done. Now onto something meaningful, because it came to my understanding a while back that my journal was quasi-popular because it was about as thought-provoking as a LIVEJOURNAL could be.
It's 2006. New year. Fresh start. All that jazz.
I'm going to be 20 years old. I've gone beyond the state of "teenager". I'm a young adult, a contributing, voting member of society...
And I have no idea where I belong or what I'm doing.
I'm not here to pout. This is simply a fact. Doors are closing all around me because while my passion in life is beyond me, all the ways to get to it are not. And they're all going away much faster than I'd hope to pretend they're not.
I know from speaking with people that I'm not the only one feeling this way. There are others... many other... who feel just as lost, using time that they don't have in the first place to squander trying to figure out what IT is that truly drives them. None of us wants to be unhappily employed for the rest of our lives, but it's a distinct and much more probable possibility.
Our educations seem to be going nowhere, teaching us things we don't care about so we can get jobs we hate that never use the information we have to memorize now. Information that only has to be memorized to get a single, flimsy piece of paper that says we can bite the bullet around stupid people long enough to get a "secondary education".
Hate it? You should. There is no such thing as making your way anymore. You have to EARN your way according to what someone else thinks of you and your work. It will cost you more money than you ever thought you'd spend, and you'll end up using maybe 30% of what you learned. Stock brokers call that kind of progress a "net LOSS".
Life has become too complex. You need approval from almost everything on one level to proceed to the very ass-bottom of the next. No one's allowed to find what they truly want out of life. They are bent and commanded to work for what someone else wants out of life.
There should be SOMETHING that evens it out, right?
Keyword : Should.
There isn't. The common person's vengeance will never be wrought, because the uncommon person says otherwise.
My advice - This is a livejournal. Don't take any advice from any livejournal. I'm gonna figure out my shit and get under way. My best to you and yours in doing the same.